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human rights

Amnesty International: “Remember that you must answer. Italy and Human Rights” Campaign

New residents of the Roghani Refugee Camp in Chaman, a Pakistani border town. Children and young people make up a large percentage of the population at Roghani Refugee Camp.
© UN Photo
Italy

Human Rights Watch: report on rejections of unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers from Italy to Greece

Panoramic photo of the building headquarters of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France.
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Italy

European Court of Human Rights: Italy condemned in the Lombardo and Cirillo cases

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death penalty

10 december 2012: Presentation of the International Commission against Death Penalty, University of Padova

Time to Abolish the Death Penalty: the International Human Rights Day in the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua
House of Representatives
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United Nations

Italian Parliament: the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture (OPCAT) has been ratified

A woman resident of the Kibati camp of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) carries a bag of food ration distributed by the World Food Programme in collaboration with the non-governmental organization, CARITAS.
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Italy

International Cooperation Services (SISCOS) : publication of statistics on international cooperation operators in 2011

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research

Presentation of the Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2012 at the Regional Committee for human rights and a culture of peace

Venice, Palazzo Balbi, Monday, 15th October 2012
Photo on the subject of violence against women in East Timor. Black and white image of the faded silhouette and hand of a woman.
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Italy

Council of Europe: Italy signs the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence

Presentation of the Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2012, Rome, 20 September 2012. From the left: Prof. Marco Mascia of the Univertisy of Padua, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi and the senator Pietro Marcenaro.
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research

The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs has presented the Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2012

Rome, Thursday 20th September 2012
Human Rights Centre, Inauguration of the first academic year of the European Master in Human Rights and democratisation, 6 October 1997, Palazzo Ducale, Piovego room.
Italy

The European Master’s Programme (E.MA): Closing Ceremony of the academic year 2011/2012 and the opening ceremony of the new academic year. Venice, September 23rd 2012

Libra and gavel as a simbol of justice
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Italy

The Justice Commission of the Italian Senate approves the Bill for the introduction of the crime of torture in the Italian criminal code

Palazzo Madama facade, Senato della Reppublica
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United Nations

The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Italian Senate approves the Bill for the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against torture

House of Representatives
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Italy

The Italian House of Representatives continues the examination of the Bill on the establishment the National Human Rights Commission

A crowd of demonstrators protest against the atmosphere of lawlessness in Tripoli, 2011
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peace

Association Rondine: International Symposium "A sea between two sides, a bridge between two worlds", Rondine, 5-6 July 2012

Close up of Nils Muižnieks, new Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, 2012
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Italy

Council of Europe: visit to Italy of the Commissioner for Human Rights